Tooth-brush charger



(No Model.)

T.. HOLLIS. TOOTH BRUSH CHARGER.

Patented Aug. 6, 1895.

"Mr/Vases:

- 4 INVENTOR ATTORNEY.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS HOLLIS, OF MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOOTH-BRUSH CHARGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,934, dated August6, 1895.

Application filed May 3,1895. Serial No. 547,980. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS Hours, of Milton, in the county of Norfolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Tooth-BrushCharger, of which the followmg is a specification, reference being badto the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation,broken away to show the sliding valve and operating-stem,

to the valve being shown closed. Fig. 2 is asection on line 2 2 of Fig.3, the sliding valve being shown open. Fig. 3 is asection on line 3 3 ofFig. l looking in the direction of the arrow.

My invention consists in the arrangement of parts and in certain detailsof construction. In the drawings, A is a funnel-shaped receptacle fortooth-powder fast at the bottom of the box 13. The box B is attached atone end to the wall-plate D, which is connected also to the receptacle Aatthe upper rim of A, and which serves to support the parts A and B, andby means of which the charger is hung upon a wall. A slot b in the'topof box B permits the contents of receptacle A to drop through into box Bwhen the slot is not closed by the sliding valve E, which carries at oneend upon its upper side the stirrer e, which travels in the slot 1), andwhich serves also as a stop to prevent the outward movement of valve Eunder pressure of spring F. The valve E has upon its under side anoperating-stud e, against which one end of the spring F presses, theother end bearing against the wall-plate D. A shallow drawer G restsupon the bottom of box B, having across its front end a slightly-raisededge 9.

The operation is as follows: The normal position of the sliding valve E,under pressure of the spring F, is as far forward as stop 6 will permitit to go, the slot 1) being thus closed. The receptacle A being filledwith tooth-powder, the tooth-brush is inserted at the outer end of box Band pushed inwardly, the bristles being turned upward.- The end of thetooth-brush coming in contact with stud e, the stud, and the valve E towhich it is fast, are forced back against the pressure of spring F. Theslot 1) is thus unclosed and the tooth-powder, stirred about by themove- .ment of, stirrer 6, drops through the slot upon scribed.

THOMAS HOLLIS.

\Vitnesses:

J OHN R. Snow, H. P. GUILLo.

